Isidor bash



(N-o Model.)

I. BASE.

GAP.

No. 457,069. Patented Aug. 4, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

ISIDOR BASH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,069, dated August 4, 1891. Application filed May 23, 1891. Serial No. 393,907. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, IsIDOR BASH, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Caps` ot which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which* Figure l is a side elevation of my improved cap, a portion of the vizor being broken away; and Fig. 2 avertical transverse section of the same.

Like letters of reference indicate correspending partsin the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates especially to a coinbined sweat-band forehead-protector for caps; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this character than is now in ordinary use.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the cap, which is composed of cloth or other suitable material and is provided with a vizor b of ordinary construction.

The sweat-band O is constructed in the form of the segment of a disk or circular plate and has its cord-edge preferably of the same) length as the cap-vizor. Said band is secured by its straight or oord edge to the body of the cap at or near the vizor-seam. The band is constructed, preferably, on one face fof oilsilk or wash-leather orsimilar moisture-proof material, such surface coming into contact with the forehead of the wearer when the band is turned inward into the cap, as shown in Fig. 2. The opposite surface of the band is formed from velvet cloth' or similar proteoting material.

In use, when the band is turned inward, as in Fig. 2, it serves for the ordinary purposes ot' a sweateband for the forehead.` Said band being ot' flexible material and of the segmental shape described, in cold or inclement weather it may be turned downward, as shown in Fig. l, in which position it bears tightly against the forehead, serving as protection therefor against cold.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is- In a cap, a sweat-band constructed in the form of a segment of a disk, said band being secured by its cord-edge to said cap at or near the vizoreseam and adapted to be turned downward under said vizor to form a forehead-protector, substantially as described.

ISIDOR BASH.

Witnesses:

O. M. SHAW, K. DURFEE, 

